How to Use assembly-line in a Sentence

assembly-line

1 of 2 adjective

• The process of making those larger paintings has a little bit of an assembly-line aspect to it.
  — Alex Bacon, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
• Dishes are concocted Chipotle-style, by ordering at the assembly-line-style counter.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 July 2026
• Taking an assembly-line approach to treatment can miss the subtle, underlying triggers that can lead to relapse.
  — K.h. Koehler, Ascend Agency, 1 July 2026
• Having babies didn’t just ensure the future of humanity in a practical, assembly-line kind of way.
  — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
• What comes through most vividly is the sense of forced placidity, the assembly-line-like control over life and activity this country club comes to represent.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
• This isn’t a labor dispute involving steel workers, auto plant assembly-line employees or teachers.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2026
• Unlike many popular artists, she was never classically trained or in any other bands, nor was she plucked from obscurity to perform assembly-line creations.
  — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
• Many of the overuse injuries seen among video game players are also familiar to assembly-line workers, whose jobs can involve similarly repetitive movements.
  — Erica D. Henn, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
• The first is a nod to Zao’s assembly-line counter setup, which is similar to the build-your-own concept used by Chipotle Mexican Grill.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 20 Apr. 2026
• The same pattern repeated when assembly-line production expanded in the early 20th century.
  — Christopher Marquis, Time, 30 May 2026
• These evoke the detailed, all-encompassing assembly-line mural by Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
  — Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
• Tropical storms have spawned in what seems like assembly-line fashion in recent weeks, as El Nino conditions that emerged in June have caused waters to grow warmer than normal, setting off a chain of unusual weather around much of the world.
  — John Raby, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
• This is still a Hollywood spectacle, complete with explosions and celebrities and deep-cut needle drops, slick enough to keep Paramount happy without ruffling in-house censors’ feathers yet cool enough to not seem like an assembly-line product.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
• After four seasons of an assembly-line approach to maximalism — attach loads of nostalgia here, plug in decadent CGI there, retcon the plot throughout — the show’s budget is huge and the final eight episodes are supersized.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
• An assembly-line approach Conventional nuclear plants require massive, bespoke civil engineering works constructed entirely on site.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
• This static approach was appropriate for filling factory assembly-line positions with individuals expected to retire between 50 and 65.
  — Jerry Cahn, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• When, in the early nineteen-hundreds, Gibson developed the F-style flat-back, inspired by the Stradivarius violin, the idea was to produce a louder instrument that could be used for classical as well as folk music, while being assembly-line-friendly.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• From textile workers in the Industrial Revolution to assembly-line workers in the age of robotics, once-stable fields have repeatedly lost out to technological innovation, while social policy has lagged far behind.
  — Ross Benjamin, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
• Now—in typical Internet of Things, or IoT, fashion—users will be able to plug a variety of assembly-line equipment directly to Sawyer and then control that with the same behavior tree that controls the robot on Intera.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Feb. 2017
• Asked whether the initial handful of repertory titles could grow into a larger slate, perhaps with more contemporary releases, Kirk Shintani, creative director at MakeMake, stressed the importance of not taking an assembly-line approach.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
• Lurie’s film opens (in black and white) with Black American soldiers getting involved in a deadly confrontation and shifts to America where a post-war Castle visits the home of a former assembly-line worker (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) to talk about her pension.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

assembly line

2 of 2 noun

• That's where the assembly line comes in.
  — New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
• The car never made it to the assembly line.
  — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
• The assembly line of fresh produce is then en route to those in need.
  — Chris Wragge, CBS News, 12 June 2026
• Set up your assembly line — three shallow bowls will do the trick.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• Was the idea to make something about the way horror comes off an assembly line?
  — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
• The assembly line for the atomic bombs was spread out over a great distance.
  — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
• Cars on an assembly line are all the same and pass their robots the same way every time.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2022
• Many patients think a hair transplant works like an assembly line.
  — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
• What came off the assembly line were more than vehicles.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• The plant will likely get an all-new body and paint shop as well as a battery pack assembly line.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• For many assembly lines, that requirement is tough to meet.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
• There is no assembly line with robots; the cars are pushed from one station to the next by hand.
  — New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2026
• That's a good sign for folks who are keen to see this glide off the assembly line in the second half of this year.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 May 2025
• Then there was a short wait as an assembly line of staffers packed up our cupcakes into a to-go box.
  — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 14 May 2019
• There’s nothing handmade or one-of-a-kind here — this doll was born of an assembly line.
  — Staff Author, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
• The tomatoes were always there, coming in the back door as if on an assembly line.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2021
• That way, for six days a week, 11 hours a day, as his hands fly across the assembly line, his mind fills.
  — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2020
• Elder is a false prophet in a state that has churned them out, left and right, like widgets in an assembly line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Walk down the assembly line and watch the workers make magic out of milk, eggs and butter.
  — Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
• Emilio was assigned to one of the assembly lines, as Marcos had been.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• John Hughes would soon arrive with scripts for an assembly line of teen movies.
  — Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
• Sanders is the next big back in Chandler's assembly line of all-state running backs.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
• Cooked on-site by a staff chef, the meals are placed in takeout trays by an assembly line of volunteers.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2025
• Last-minute changes at one point in the assembly line risks causing unpredictable changes down the line.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2018
• The son of a foundry worker, Kariem worked on the assembly line at age 20.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2021
• Players will return to the assembly line soon, welcomed by a shiny, state-of-the-art workspace.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
• The bobsleds entered the assembly line for their final ride of the day like planes readying to taxi.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• The security gates are meant to be a neat assembly line, not a five-car pileup.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
• If a shipment of transmissions does not arrive, the whole car assembly line shuts down.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
• Women were ushered to the start of the line, and the assembly line of serving spoons was set in motion.
  — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026